Florida vs. Tulane

Florida and Tulane first met in 1915 and have played 22 times; Florida leads the series 14–⁠6–⁠2. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Florida 10–⁠0, and Florida has won the last 12.

Florida wins
14
Tulane wins
6
Ties
2
First meeting
1915
Longest streak
12 Florida
Current streak
12 Florida
Last 10 meetings
Florida 10–⁠0
Most recent
2024

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s1–⁠2
1920s1–⁠1
1930s0–⁠2
1940s0–⁠1–⁠2
1950s2–⁠0
1960s7–⁠0
1980s2–⁠0
2020s1–⁠0
Average margin
19.1 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Florida
8–⁠3 Florida’s record at home
At Tulane
3–⁠5–⁠2 Tulane’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Florida first
Shutouts
4

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Florida’s biggest win1984: Florida 63, Tulane 21by 42 points
  2. Tulane’s biggest win1917: Tulane 52, Florida 0by 52 points

Coach against coach

YearsFloridaSeriesTulane
1966–⁠1969Ray Graves4–⁠0Jim Pittman

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Florida’s side (Graves 4–⁠0 against Pittman). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Florida and Tulane, 1915 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

D.J. Lagway Florida2024

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The The Pensacola journal's story of the 1919 game: GATORS LOSE OCREENBACKS FLORIDA PUTS UP STUBBORN FIGHT BUT TULANE ELEVEN OUTPLAYS AGGREGATlON.

    1919 · The Pensacola journal, Pensacola, Fla., Nov 10, 1919

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1922 game: Heduy' Gators Use Weight We'll, and Beat Tulane, 27-6

    1922 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Nov 19, 1922

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1934 game: FOOT BALL 415REsULTs

    1934 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 15, 1934

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1946 game

    1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 7, 1946

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Photos

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game

Dec 20, 2024Florida 33, Tulane 8Raymond James StadiumGasparilla Bowl
Sep 15, 1984Florida 63, Tulane 21at Florida
Nov 20, 1982Florida 21, Tulane 7at Tulane
Oct 11, 196912Florida 18, Tulane 17at Florida
Oct 12, 19687Florida 24, Tulane 3at Florida
Oct 14, 1967Florida 35, Tulane 0at Tulane
Nov 12, 1966Florida 31, Tulane 10at Florida
Nov 13, 1965Florida 51, Tulane 13at Florida
Oct 6, 1961Florida 14, Tulane 3at Tulane
Nov 12, 196020Florida 21, Tulane 6at Florida
Sep 18, 1959Florida 30, Tulane 0at Tulane
Sep 20, 1958Florida 34, Tulane 14at Florida
Nov 15, 1947Tulane 7, Florida 7at Tulane
Oct 5, 1946Tulane 27, Florida 13at Tulane
Oct 6, 1945Tulane 6, Florida 6at Tulane
Oct 12, 1935Tulane 19, Florida 7at Tulane
Oct 13, 1934Tulane 28, Florida 12at Florida
Nov 18, 1922Florida 27, Tulane 6at Tulane
Nov 6, 1920Tulane 14, Florida 0at Florida
Nov 8, 1919Tulane 14, Florida 2at Tulane
Oct 20, 1917Tulane 52, Florida 0at Florida
Nov 18, 1915Florida 14, Tulane 7at Florida

Every game is listed as played on the field.